Roller-bracket for window-shades



R. E. REESE. Y ROLLER BRACKET FOR WINDOW SHADES. APPLICAUONHLED Aufs.3o.192o.

1,385,397. Patented July 26, 1921.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD E. REESE, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF T0 WILLIAM MCKINLEY, 0F DMAHA, NEBRASKA..

ROLLER-BRACKET FOR WINDOW-SHADFS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Juiy 2o, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD E. REESE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and btate of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roller-Brackets for Window-Shades, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to brackets for supporting the rollers of window shades, and has for its principal object to provide a pair of brackets so constructed that, when inserted between the parting strips and molding strips of a window frame for supporting a shade roller, it will form stops below the roller to prevent accidental removal of the roller from the slot or hook of the bracket, when the window sash has been moved upwardly. Other ob'ects of the invention will be mentioned hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is a broken away, front view, partly in section, showing the brackets and their position for supporting a shade roller. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2--2 of Fig. 1, a window sash being added. Figs. 3 and 4 are side views of the pair of brackets. Fig. 5 is a view showing the upper and lower sashes of a window.

Referring now particularly to the drawing, the invention is described in connection with the parting strips 6, weather strips 7 and molding strips 8 of a window frame, and it will be understood that, as best shown in Fig. 2, a channel 9 will be formed between the parting strips 6 and molding strips 8 in which the inner, lower Window sash may slide, and that the outer, upper sash 11 may slide in a channel 12, between the weather strips 7 and the parting strips 6, also that each sash ordinarily, may have sliding movements the entire length of the parting strips.

In order that the shade roller 14 ma be supported horizontally in the plane o the lower sash 10 I provide a pair of brackets 15 and 16, the bracket 15 being provided with a holder element or eye 17 for receiving the projection or pin 18 at one end of the spring-roller 14 and the bracket 16 being provided with a holder element or hook 19 for receiving the projection or blade 20 at the opposite end of said roller.

The brackets 15 and 16 are preferably constructed of spring-wire and are of a similar form in many respects, each consisting of a metallic strand of approximately M-shape, providing a pair of arms 21 having endportions or loops 22 with outwardly pro- Jecting terminals or teeth 23 for engaging a molding strip and a` parting strip, said loops 22 being bent at approximately right-angles, near their ends, to form a pair of stops 24, said strand, for the bracket 15 providing parts 25, between the arms 21, which converge toward each other to form an eye 17 for receiving the pin 18 mentioned, and the parts 26, between the arms 21 of the bracket 16, converging toward each other to provide a hook 19 for receiving the blade 20 of the shade roller.

By referring to the drawing it will be seen that the parts 25 and 26 of the brackets are not disposed in line with the arms 21but extend outwardly of the channel 9 so that the pin and blade at the ends of the roller may be readily received, respectively, by the eye 17 and hook 19, this feature obviously being desirable as a matter of convenience when mounting a shade roller in the brackets, and operating as an adequate support for these parts; also it will be seen that the pin and blade of the shade roller will be disposed midway between the teeth or terminals 23 of the brackets, the result being that stresses directed to the brackets by the weight of the roller and shade 27 will be adequately resisted, and swinging movements prevented; also, by referring to the drawing, it will be noted that the stop-members 24 will be disposed below the holders 17 and 19 and below the roller 14, the result being that when the lower sash 10 has an upward sliding movement in the channels 9, said movement will be termii nated by the stops 24 so that it will not detach the roller from the brackets, which otherwise might occur.

Having described construction, the use and operation of the brackets will be readily understood. The resilient arms 21 may be manually pressed toward each other from their normal position when placing the brackets in the channels 9, and the terminals 23 will be pressed against the parting strips and molding strips with such force that they will support the weight of the shade and roller, and if the sash 10 is moved upwardly it may engage the stops 24 but will not engage the roller, and therefore will not dis,- lodge the roller from the brackets.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

In roller brackets for window shades, said roller having pintles at its ends, a metallic strand approximately of M-shape, providing a pair of downwardly extending arms disposed in a single plane and providing a second pair of connected arms extending conv'ergently outwardly of the plane of the first named pair of arms, the end-portions of the connected parts of the second pair of arms being bent toward one of said first 16 named arms to provide a socket for receiving one of the pintles of' the roller, said irst named pair of arms being bent to form a pair of loops having terminal projections disposed in the horizontal plane of said 20 socket.

In testimony whereof, I have aiixcd my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

RICHARD E. REESE Witnesses HIRAM A. STURGES, ARTHUR H. STURGES. 

